For Educators — The Learning Paradox
Prioritizing foundations for child growth and success over screen use.
The Problem
Screens in the classroom constantly compete with valuable learning time – and teachers face huge challenges in ensuring students learn, despite ubiquitous use of screens! Teachers are reporting global delays in foundational skills for literacy, as well as low motivation and attention deficit.
How would you like to significantly enhance your student’s development, behavior and learning…in just 3 days? Our Technology Management webinar for teachers provides Balanced Technology Management certification and CEU’s using research referenced, strategy focused outcomes.
Check out the new, complimentary, peer leadership Screenbuster training program for teens qualifying them to provide Tech Talk sessions to fellow students. The Learning Paradox takes teachers ‘beyond the screen’ to a place where students get the edge they need to succeed.
The Learning Paradox
Who should buy and watch Webinar?
Reconnect Webinars is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development approval #6106.
Complete the 3-day course and receive certification in
Balanced Technology Management.
Come join the Reconnect Webinars
Balanced Technology Management team!
Click here for more information.
You will be asked to create a profile to access free webinars (done via the checkout process). This allows the website to grant your access and track your progress through modules in the webinar. Reconnect Webinars is committed to your privacy and will not share your data.
What's Included?
Module 1 — Introduction, Statistics and Expert Guidelines
The ways in which we are raising and educating children with screens are no longer sustainable
- Child harms/child rights
- Tech trends: past -> present
- Pre/post covid screen usage stats
- Pediatrician expert guidelines
- Tech Management webinar review
2 hrs. – FREE
Module 2 — 4 Critical Factors for Child Development
Create sustainable futures – give kids the edge they need to grow and succeed
- Move: fit, coordinated, literate
- Touch: relaxed, secure
- Human Connection: social, regulated
- Nature: calm, focused
Guest speakers include Phyllis Dyson – teacher, author, trauma specialist and Dr. Kerry Crofton – psychologist, author, nature advocate.
2.5 hours for $100
Module 3 — Physical Development Research
All screen use is detrimental to healthy child development, behavior and learning
- Brain/body development
- Screen impact research areas:
-
Obesity/diabetes
-
Developmental delay
-
Hyperarousal
-
Myopia
-
Sleep deprivation
-
Melatonin, vitamin D
-
Eating disorders
-
2 hrs for $100
Module 4 — Wireless Radiation Research
Not proven safe, early studies show harm
- Experimental, epidemiological and cancer studies
- Global initiatives; precautionary principle
- Reduction methods
Guest speakers include Theodora Scarato, Executive Director of Environmental Health Trust and Katie Singer, environmental journalist and author.
2.5 hrs. for $100
Module 5 — Social Development Research
Humans don’t do well when separated from their pack.
- Social media isn’t social
- Violent video games
- Early pornography
- Polarity, hate, radicalization
Guest speakers include Jean Rogers, educator and Director of the Children’s Screen time Action Network; Dr. Douglas Gentile, psychologist, professor, researcher, author and Mary Sharpe, lawyer and CEO of The Reward Foundation – Love, Sex and the Internet.
4 hrs for $100
Module 6 — Emotional Development Research
=Tech crack – sad, mad and finally bad
- Problem behaviours
- Identity, motivation, independence
- Challenge and risk
- Self-regulation
- Aggression, violence, cyberbullying
3.5 hrs. for $100
Module 7 — Mental Development Research
What we do/watch is who we become
- Parent-child attachment, mental health
- Adverse Childhood Experiences research
- Screen media and mental illness
- Unplug – don’t drug; misdiagnosis/medication
- Adhd, autism, internet addiction
- Data privacy, security, persuasive design
Guest speaker includes Dr. Hilarie Cash, psychologist, author, Chief Clinical Director of reSTART Internet Addiction Centre.
3.5 hrs. for $100
Module 8 — Cognitive Development Research
Were using a lot of something we know little about
- Educational trends, creativity crisis, Covid impact
- Screen impact research areas:
-
declining literacy
-
cognitive impairment
-
multitasking stress
-
attention deficit
-
poor productivity
-
- Considerations for screens in school
- Tech illusion — We’re using an awful lot of something we know very little about
Guest speaker includes Joe Clements, teacher, coach, advocate, author.
2 hrs for $100
Module 10 — Balanced Technology Management for Schools
Edtech brain drain…the Learning Paradox
- Prepare baseline data
- 10 steps toward Educational Health
- 4 BTM Best Standards of Practice for schools:
-
More movement and nature
-
Ban cell phones and entertainment content (video games, social media, porn)
-
No screens until grade 3 literacy is achieved
-
Do no harm – ensure safe and effective edtech
-
- Screenbuster peer program for teens
- Establish screen management policy for school setting
Guest speakers include Lisa Cline, journalist and co-chair Screens in Schools committee with Screentime Action Network and Frank Clegg, CEO Canadians for Safe Technology.
4 hrs for $100
Module 12 — Tech Tool Kit Review; Conclusion
Application of 42 BTM tools and techniques
- 8 signature graphics
- 9 screen usage assessments
- 9 BTM techniques
- 9 BTM tools for parents
- 7 BTM tools for educators and clinicians
- Conclusion and final thoughts
1.5 hrs for FREE
Singular focus on ubiquitous use of screens in schools has diverted educator’s attention and funding away from research evidenced teaching foundations for printing, reading and math resulting in abysmal decline in academic performance. Despite expert guidelines recommending no more than 2 hours per day of screen time, zero supporting research for online learning, and numerous studies validating outdoor/nature learning, a preponderance of schools went online. Depressed and anxious, physically unfit, socially inept and cognitively delayed…children and youth have emerged from Covid online learning ill prepared for school, work and life in general.
Learning Outcomes
- Relate current technology research to physical, mental, social and cognitive performance.
- Apply knowledge regarding the 4 critical factors for achieving healthy child sensory, motor and attachment development.
- Review literacy standards and form subsequent technology management policies for schools.
- Apply In/Outdoor Learning concepts and begin training teens for the Screenbusters Program.
Handouts
- Technology Tool Kit (Includes 75 handouts for parents, teachers and clinicians which can be reproduced for students as needed)
Who should buy and watch Webinar?
Parents
Disconnect to Reconnect
Impact of technology on child development, behaviour, and learning.
Clinicians
Screening for Screens
Teens
Finding the balance between virtual and real
Become a certified Screenbuster!
Find the balance between virtual and real.
Check out our free Technology Management webinar for teens
Become a certified Screenbuster!
Finding the balance between virtual and real.
Cris Rowan, BScOT, BScBi, SIPT
An outspoken critic on the impact of technology on human development, behavior, and productivity
Webinar creator Cris Rowan, is passionate about changing the ways in which humans use and interact with technology. Cris has developed a concept termed Balanced Technology Management (BTM) where humans strive to manage balance between healthy activity and technology.
She works globally and locally and has cross culture relevance from indigenous and developing communities. Cris is a visionary, who clearly sees that the ways in which humans are using technology are not sustainable, and the time to act is now. Activist, advocate, author, and prolific speaker, Cris helps people move from the virtual, back into the real world.
by Heart Light Digital